Ideas Quotes
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I think if you let go of preconceived ideas, you'll find everything in this life. For me, my understanding is God is all that is, God is everything, all that is, and your true God is within, and that's the power that you have as a human being.
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I lived with people who had varied opinions, some of whom did not accept my Nazi views. I encouraged this. If a man said something that was critical of me or my ideas, I wouldn't consider him an enemy.
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... scientific research is compounded of ... empirical procedures, general speculative ideas, and mathematical or abstract reasoning.
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The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown their uselessness, it will not grudge to any unfamiliar conception its moment of full and friendly attention, hoping to expand rather than to minimize what small core of usefulness it may happen to contain.
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If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.
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The thought of bringing a cake into a dance music show is a bizarre one. The idea of rafting on top of people is just as bizarre as well. And I think whenever something bizarre comes into play, it immediately becomes an easy target. And for those reasons, I know that I have been the target of criticism.
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One must know how to disregard the vehicle of the idea in order to consider its motivation alone.
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After you produce you can select. you can curate. you can censor. But for now, have bad ideas, lots and lots of bad ideas.
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And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.
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Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all.
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The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.
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The idea of massive amounts of fame-having my face on Walgreens end-caps and pizza boxes-I don't fantasize about that. I'm happy with just being a songwriter. I'd rather have smaller numbers [of fans] that are really into what I'm doing than a massive amount of people that don't really know what I'm about.
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As soon as you raise a thought and begin to form an idea of it, you ruin the reality itself, because you then attach yourself to form.
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All we are is our ideas, or people. That's what keeps us going to work in the morning, to hang around these great bright people. I've always thought that recruiting is the heart and soul of what we do.
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That's what real punk is about - doing it yourself and building a community where people share ideas and share creativity.
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I was thinking about comedy and how comedy in many ways opens us up to ideas and really being influenced by Richard Pryor and sort of the way he would use comedy to really speak about larger social issues.
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The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.
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She's talking about herself in the third person because the idea of being who she is, of acknowledging that she is herself, is more than her pride can take.
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When the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable.
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I don't know what will happen to the physical book and what it will mean for authors. I worry whether it will mean people can still make their careers this way. Will whatever comes next allow people to be able to own their ideas and be able to take time to develop them?
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We can't change the world for animals without changing our ideas about animals. We have to move from the idea that animals are things, tools, machines, commodities, resources here for our use to the idea that as sentient beings they have their own inherent value and dignity.
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I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.
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If you make the effort to work through the ideas I’ll be setting out in this book, then even if you do not end up agreeing with me that the existence of God, the immortality of the soul, and the natural law conception of morality are rationally unavoidable, you will understand how reasonable people could be convinced of this.
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I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down and wondered, "What shall I write about next?". It just came, fully formed.
